XVIII Armeekorps

The XVIII Armeekorps was a corps of the German Wehrmacht that was formed in Salzburg, Austria on 1 April 1938 following the Anschluss. The corps was later redesignated as a mountain corps (gebirgskorps), and Franz Boehme commanded the corps during the Battle of Greece in 1941. At the time, it consisted of the 2nd Panzer Division, the German 5th Mountain Division, the German 6th Mountain Division, the German 72nd Infantry Division, and the German 125th Infantry Division, and it was deployed along the Metaxas Line. In May 1942, the corps was sent to Lapland in Finland, with Karl Eglseer holding command of the corps from October 1942 until his June 1944 death in a plane crash, and Friedrich Hochbaum took command of the corps as it was sent to West Prussia in Germany to fight against the Soviet Union. The division capitulated to the Allies in May 1945.